![]() Turns out that like the FBI, they come across rather a lot of them and they had a very large corpus (as in hundreds of millions) they believed weren't already in HIBP. The NCA wanted to help parents identify when kids may be at that crossroad and steer them in the right direction.īut let's get back to passwords: A little while back I was having a chat with some NCCU folks (the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit), and talk turned to passwords. There are a bunch of really smart kids out there and they find themselves at a crossroads where they could easily go down the wrong path with computer crimes but equally, easily be steered in a direction which may produce a wonderful career for them. I'd run it up front whilst people were filtering into the room because it was fun and light-hearted, but it told a serious story. I used to show a short video of theirs at the beginning of many of my talks it's titled Teenage Cybercrime: Help your child make the right choices and it formed part of their #CyberChoices campaign. Back when I could travel, I'd often catch up with NCA folks in London and it was always fascinating to get just a little glimpse into how they were tackling things in that corner of the world. The UK's National Crime Agency has done some wonderful work over the years to combat cybercrime. ![]() He volunteered his time to make this possible and I'm enormously grateful for that, thanks mate □Īll of this alone would be awesome in and of itself, but as they say, there's just one more thing. He stepped up and coordinated the community, worked with our FBI contacts, upgraded the tech stack to the latest and greatest versions and brought this whole thing to reality. I want to acknowledge Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson's role in making this possible. Further, passwords already in the service are having their prevalence value updated to ensure you know just how bad those passwords really are. If you're using the Pwned Passwords API to check passwords, you're already benefiting every new password added to the service will automatically be checked each time you call that API. The premise is simple: during the course of their investigations, they come across a lot of compromised passwords and if they were able to continuously feed those into HIBP, all the other services out there using Pwned Passwords would be able to better protect their customers from account takeover attacks.įast forward to now and that ingestion pipeline is finally live. This pipeline enables the ingestion of passwords from law enforcement agencies, like the FBI. NET Foundation and announced we'd be building an ingestion pipeline. ![]() I made the decision to begin with Pwned Passwords and in May, I transitioned it into the. I'm only able to run this project due to support from the community, so I wanted to start giving it back to the public in a bid to make it more open, more sustainable and in turn, more valuable to every single one of you using it. Last year I wrote about my intention to begin open sourcing parts of HIBP. I mean it's literally live and working as you read this □ This has been a long time coming, and it's finally here. Open Source Code and FBI Ingestion Pipeline Today, I'm really excited to mark a major milestone in the project thanks to the support of two of the world's foremost law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the NCA. Oh - and it's all 100% free from top to bottom □ And per the network request in the above image, every single password check is done using the k-anonymity model I launched back in 2018 to ensure that privacy is maintained and passwords can safely be checked without risk of disclosure. Or literally thousands of other services doing everything from providing their own password checker through to checking their customers' passwords on every registration, login or password change to see if it's previously been breached. For example, the Hims personal wellness website: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there. 99.7% of the time, that check went no further than one of hundreds of Cloudflare edge nodes spread around the world (95% of the world's population is within 50ms of one). In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API.
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